Language, material culture, fiction, cultural studies, more. Anything related to 6th – 10th centuries, anywhere in the world.
Maya Maskarinec deposited Clinging to Empire in Jordanes’ Romana in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Jordanes’ Romana
Albrecht Diem deposited The Limitations of Asceticism in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
This article discusses the limitations and advantages of using ›asceticism‹ as a universal category and as a hermeneutic tool in the study of late antique religious life and comparative studies of religious communities. It first explores the roots and the history of the terms ›asceticism‹, ›Askese‹ and ›ascétisme‹ arguing that they originate f…[Read more]
Claire Collins deposited St. Patrick vs. Cenn Cruaich in the Patrician Lives: Elements of narrative in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
The narrative between the legendary Saint Patrick and his opponent, the idol Cenn Cruaich, appears from the initial mention of the location Magh Slecht in Tírechán’s Collectanea (c. 688-693AD), through the Vitae Tertia (c. 775AD), Quarta (c. 8th – 11th C. AD) and Tripartita (c. 9th – 10th C. AD), to its appearance in Jocelin’s Vita Patrici…[Read more]
Alaric Hall deposited ‘I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child’: critical plant theory and the maiden mother conceit in early medieval riddles in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
While early medieval riddles in Old English and, to a lesser extent, Latin, have been studied extensively from ecocritical perspectives in recent years, the large corpora of riddles in other languages of western Eurasia have yet to benefit from or feed back into these methodological developments. Meanwhile, ecocritical research generally has…[Read more]
Howard Williams deposited Envisioning Wat’s Dyke in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
In response to the challenge set by one of us (Williams this volume), this chapter explores new avenues for a public archaeology of Wat’s Dyke. A host of digital and real-world initiatives for public and community engagement are suggested, but the focus is upon one new initiative: the What’s Wat’s Dyke? Heritage Trail which aims to envision Wat’s…[Read more]
Howard Williams deposited Undead Divides: An Archaeology of Walls in The Walking Dead in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
In 2010, the zombie horror genre gained even greater popularity than the huge following it had previously enjoyed when AMC’s The Walking Dead (TWD) first aired. The chapter surveys the archaeology of this fictional post-apocalyptic material world in the show’s seasons 1–9, focusing on its mural practices and environments which draw upon ancie…[Read more]
Howard Williams deposited The biography of borderlands: Old Oswestry hillfort and modern heritage debates in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Responding to the recently published edited collection exploring the hillfort and landscape context of Old Oswestry (Shropshire, England) by heritage professionals connected to the Hands off Old Oswestry Hillfort heritage protection campaign (Malim and Nash 2020), this chapter reviews and reflects on the significance of the overall…[Read more]
Howard Williams deposited Public Archaeologies from the Edge in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The chapter serves to introduce the first-ever book dedicated to public archaeologies of frontiers and borderlands. We identify the hitherto neglect of this critical field which seeks to explore the heritage, public engagements, popular cultures and politics of frontiers and borderlands past and present. We review the 2019 conference organised by…[Read more]
Howard Williams deposited Living after Offa: Place-Names and Society Memory in the Welsh Marches in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
How are linear monuments perceived in the contemporary landscape and how do they operate as memoryscapes for today’s borderland communities? When considering Offa’s Dyke and Wat’s Dyke in today’s world, we must take into account the generations who have long lived in these monuments’ shadows and interacted with them. Even if perhaps only being dim…[Read more]
Howard Williams deposited Collaboratory, coronavirus and the colonial countryside in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Introducing the second volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ), this five-part article sets the scene by reviewing: (i) key recent research augmenting last year’s Introduction (Williams and Delaney 2019); (ii) the key activities of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory in 2020; (iii) the political mobilisation of Offa’s Dyke in the context of the COVID-1…[Read more]
Evina Steinova deposited The Oldest Manuscript Tradition of the Etymologiae (eighty years after A. E. Anspach) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost 1,200, of which approximately 300 were estimated to have been copied before the year 1000. This article, based on a…[Read more]
Kordula Wolf deposited Hindered Passages. The Failed Muslim Conquest Of Southern Italy in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
The establishment of an Aghlabid, then Fāṭimid-Kalbid dominion in Sicily had a deep impact not only on the island and on Mediterranean power constellations, but also on mainland Italy, especially in its Southern parts. Although the Peninsula was under continuous attack between the ninth and eleventh centuries, all attempts to place it under su…[Read more]
Anna Dorofeeva deposited Visualizing codicologically and textually complex manuscripts in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
This article presents the collation map, a diagrammatic method for visually mapping the texts of complex medieval Western manuscripts against their material structures. Beginning with an overview of collation formulae – currently the most frequently used method of representing collation – the article argues that the collation map is a more use…[Read more]
Alex Woolf deposited British Ethnogenesis: a Late Antique Story in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
This chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]
Ricky Broome deposited Ingrid Rembold, Conquest and Christianization: Saxony and the Carolingian World, 772-888 in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago
This is the uncorrected proofs version of my review of Ingrid Rembold’s Conquest and Christianization for The Mediaeval Journal. Some wording may differ from the final published version. Please refer to the journal website.
Thijs Porck deposited An Old English Love Poem, a Beowulf Summary and a Reference Letter from Eduard Sievers: G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854–1922) as an Aspiring Old Germanicist in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
This article calls attention to documents relating to the early academic life of G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854–1922). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, Bolland was enthralled by the study of Old Germanic languages and Old English in particular. His endeavours soon caught the eye of Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1854–1922), Professor of Germanic Phi…[Read more]
Katherine Cross deposited Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Art, Race and Religion in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
A critical historiographical overview of art historical approaches to early medieval material culture, with a focus on the British Museum collections and their connections to religion.
Alex Woolf deposited The ‘Moray Question’ and the Kingship of Alba in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This paper examines the nature and basis of the competition between the dynasty based in Moray, to which the famous MacBeth belonged, and the mainline of Scottish kings.
Alex Woolf deposited Pictish matriliny reconsidered in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This article examines the evidence for Pictish kingship being transmitted through the female line.
Alex Woolf deposited At Home in the Long Iron Age in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This paper discussed the micro demography of households in later prehistoric and early medieval northern Europe.
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